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‘Smoking Gun’ May Help Solve Mystery of High-Temperature Superconductivity
Physicists have found what they call a “smoking gun” for one of the oldest puzzles in materials science: how certain copper-oxide materials…
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Genetic Study Shows Easter Island Seafarers Settled Hawaii
Native Hawaiians are genetically closest to the people of Easter Island, and new research says the first humans to settle the Hawaiian…
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Physicists Say a ‘Forgotten’ Particle Could Explain Why We Exist
Physicists have proposed a new answer to one of the oldest questions in science: why does anything exist at all? A team…
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Cosmic ‘hamburger’ offers rare edge-on view of where giant planets may take shape
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have spotted signs of early giant planet formation inside a colossal dusty disk nicknamed Gomez’s…
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Giant Canyon on Mars Is Still Tectonically Active Today
Scientists at Columbia University and Imperial College London have found that Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system in the solar system, is…
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ESA’s Hera Spacecraft Closes In on Asteroid Pair to Inspect NASA’s DART Crash Site
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is closing in on the asteroid pair where NASA deliberately crashed a probe four years ago,…
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Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks This Week, But Clouds May Spoil the View
The Orionid meteor shower hits its peak on the night of October 21 and into the early hours of October 22, but…
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Japan Launches Spacecraft to Mars’ Mysterious Moons in Bold Mission to Bring Home Soil Samples
A Japanese spacecraft rocketed toward Mars on Tuesday on an unprecedented quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back samples. The…
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Scientists Revive Pig Kidneys Frozen for Over a Year
Scientists at the University of Minnesota have rewarmed pig kidneys that spent more than a year in a freezer at minus 150…
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Margaret Hamilton, NASA Software Pioneer, Dies at 90
Margaret Hamilton, the software engineer whose code carried the Apollo missions to the moon, has died at 90. Hamilton died on September…